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- <text id=92TT0975>
- <title>
- May 04, 1992: Stuck in an Old Groove
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 04, 1992 Why Roe v. Wade Is Already Moot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Stuck in an Old Groove
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- <p>Bush and Delors et al. get nowhere on resolving issues that
- threaten GATT
- </p>
- <p> If the elaborate tariff negotiations called the Uruguay Round
- finally fail, world trade and most major economies will suffer.
- For months the talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and
- Trade have been staggering from one purported last try to
- another. Again last week no one dared call it failure when a
- crucial meeting among George Bush, European Community President
- Jacques Delors and Portuguese Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco
- Silva ended in impasse.
- </p>
- <p> The hurdle remained, as ever, the question of agricultural
- subsidies. The U.S. demands a reduction in E.C. aid to farmers
- to a level that the Community and many of its biggest member
- nations find politically unacceptable. Bush tried to sound
- hopeful when he told reporters that some "new ideas" had been
- presented. Delors was probably closer to the mark when he
- described the proposals both sides were considering as "modest."
- The U.S. and E.C. will have still another try in time for the
- G-7 economic summit in July.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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